Belgium’s support comes at a time when WFP is strapped for funds in the five countries. This timely donation is allowing WFP to continue to provide critical assistance to millions of people in Africa and the Middle East who have been affected by conflicts, displacement, and economic downturn.
Belgium is supporting WFP operations in Palestine with €2 million to provide assistance for 157,600 of the poorest and most food insecure people in the Gaza Strip, more than 70 percent of them are women and children. While already living on the edge unable to put food on their table, tens of thousands of families in the Gaza Strip rely on WFP food assistance as their only safety net to cope with hardships and eroding access to national social allowances. WFP is providing assistance via cash-based transfer in the form of electronic food vouchers to the majority of families and a small percentage receive monthly food rations.
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Document Sources: World Food Programme (WFP)
Country: Belgium
Subject: Assistance, Food
Publication Date: 09/11/2021
URL source: https://www.wfp.org/news/belgium-supports-wfp-assistance-five-countries-where-needs-are-exceptionally-high